Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

Expanding the impact of Gilles Deleuze and F lix Guattari's philosophy to the disciplines of Christian Origins and Christian theology, this original study makes the case for understanding early Christianity through such Deleuzioguattarian concepts as the 'rhizome', the 'machine', the 'body without organs' and the 'multiplicity', using the theoretical tool of schizoanalysis to do so.

The Problems of Viewing Performance challenges long-held assumptions by considering the ways in which knowledge is received by more than a single audience member, and breaks new ground by, counterintuitively, claiming that viewing performance is not a shared experience.

The Element demonstrates how far a skill model of wisdom can go with respect to explaining various aspects of wisdom.

This book's basic hypothesis - which it proposes to test with a cognitive-sociological approach - is that legal behavior, like every form of human behavior, is directed and framed by biosocial constraints that are neither entirely genetic nor exclusively cultural.

On a traditional conception of the human mind, reasoning can be rational or irrational, but perception cannot.

The book includes chapters on forms of natural realism, theories of perceptual experience, representationalism, the argument from illusion, phenomenological senses, types of perceptual content, the representationalist/intentionalist thesis, and adverbialist accounts of perceptual experience.

Does the self - a unified, separate, persisting thinker/owner/agent - exist?

Most comparisons of science and religion are really comparisons of science and Christianity, or science and Islam, and so forth.

Hume's Skeptical Crisis is a textual study of the shifts in perspective that unfold as Hume attempts to produce a complete science of human nature.

This volume in the Critical Theory and Contemporary Society series explores the arguments between critical theory and epistemology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

This summons clearly resonates with the "e;archetypical image"e; associated with water as a basic element, discussed in Chapter 2, water as the element of freedom, of mobility, of widening one's horizon.

This book leaves no stone unturned in its comprehensive examination of the complex challenges surrounding academic freedom in Africa.

A dominant epistemological assumption behind Western philosophy is that it is possible to locate some form of commonality between languages, traditions, or cultures - such as a common language or lexicon, or a common notion of rationality - which makes full linguistic communication between them always attainable.

Naturalistic cognitive science, when realistically rendered, rightly maintains that to think is to deploy contentful mental representations.

This handbook explores essential philosophical questions about the experience of difference and the other in African societies.

In the first in-depth study of the transcendental argument for decades, Free Will and Epistemology defends a modern version of the famous transcendental argument for free will: that we could not be justified in undermining a strong notion of free will, as a strong notion of free will is required for any such process of undermining to be itself epistemically justified.

The new field of experimental philosophy has emerged as the methods of psychological science have been brought to bear on traditional philosophical issues.

This volume is the first systematic and thorough attempt to investigate the relation and the possible applications of mereology to contemporary science.

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason has had, and continues to have, an enormous impact on modern philosophy.

The book addresses for the first time the dynamics associated with the modernization of mathematics in China from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century from a transcultural global historical perspective.

Experimental philosophy is one of the most active and exciting areas in philosophy today.

This edited collection that celebrates the legacy of Suellen Shay, is located in Higher Education Studies and Development in South Africa, the country where she lived and worked.

Knowledge, from Plato onwards, has been considered in relation to justified belief.

This book makes the case for a pragmatist approach to the practice of social inquiry and knowledge production.

The turn of the millennium has been marked by new developments in the study of early modern philosophy.

Moral judgments attempt to describe a reality that does not exist, so they are all false.

Epistemological theories of knowledge and justification draw a crucial distinction between one's simply having good reasons for some belief and one's actually basing one's belief on good reasons.

This book describes about unlike usual differential dynamics common in mathematical physics, heterogenesis is based on the assemblage of differential constraints that are different from point to point.

In this book, Howard J.

Philosopher and art historian Georges Didi-Huberman is one of the most innovative and influential critical thinkers writing today.

Relevant to, and drawing from, a range of disciplines, the chapters in this collection show the diversity, and applicability, of research in Bayesian argumentation.

With the world and its structures becoming ever more complex, and the nature of future employment becoming ever more unpredictable, the notion of 'cognitive flexibility' has a high profile in educational and psychological debate.

The aim of the series Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, of which this is the first volume, is to take up anew the challenge of considering the scientific enterprise in its entirety in light of recent developments in logic and philosophy.

Epistemology, as generally understood by philosophers of science, is rather remote from the history of science and from historical concerns in general.

In this original study, Keith Crome argues for the importance of Lyotard's analyzes of sophistry.

This volume presents new research on the epistemology of experts.

What sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience?

Gerhard Richter examines, in the work of Walter Benjamin, one of the central problems of modernity: the question of how to receive an intellectual inheritance.

Relativism can be found in all philosophical traditions and subfields of philosophy.

What is consciousness and why is it so philosophically and scientifically puzzling?

In the last two decades the idea of African Philosophy has undergone significant change and scrutiny.

Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples.